TY - CONF TI - Characterization of Flow in Multi Storied Residential Building Construction C1 - Oslo, Norway C3 - 22nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction SP - 559 EP - 569 PY - 2014 AU - Arumugam, Thirumalai Rajan AU - Varghese, Koshy AD - Ph.D. Candidate, Building Technology and Construction Management Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India, Phone +91-44- 9443405248, thirumalairajan.a@gmail.com AD - Professor, Building Technology and Construction Management Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India, Phone +91-44-2257- 4257 / 4250, koshy@iitm.ac.in ED - Kalsaas, Bo Terje ED - Koskela, Lauri ED - Saurin, Tarcisio Abreu AB - This paper attempts to characterize workflow in construction and thereby to provide a measure for flow at various levels of the construction process. A process based approach is adapted to model flows in construction. Construction of a multi storied residential building super-structure involving identical activities for each floor cycle was selected to observe, document and analyze the characteristics of construction activity flow. The detailed functions and relationships between resources, materials and information for each floor cycle was documented and analyzed for flow characteristics. Queuing theory approach is used for analysis and parameters for quantifying the flow characteristics are proposed. A preliminary model for characterizing flow is formulated. The application of the model for analyzing flow states is discussed. KW - Flow characterization KW - Lean Construction KW - process model KW - cycle time. PB - T2 - 22nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction DA - 2014/06/25 CY - Oslo, Norway L1 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/988/pdf L2 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/988 N1 - Export Date: 29 March 2024 DB - IGLC.net DP - IGLC LA - English ER -